Exodus 2 records the story of the Pharaoh's daughter taking Moses from the waters and raising him as her own. Walker tells us that papyrus grows abundantly throughout all the rivers of lower Egypt, and in some places, it completely covered the Nile. The plant is lovely, with a strong root which will keep it from washing away down river. Before the small brown seed-producing flowers appear, the plant has feather-like plumes (Walker).
The root of the papyrus plant was burned for fuel. The first paint brushes, it is believed, were crafted by fraying the ends of the stalks (Walker).
Exodus 1:22 (KJV) And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
Exodus 2:1 (KJV) And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
Exodus 2:2 (KJV) And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw
him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
Exodus 2:3 (KJV) And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
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